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Category Archives: Strange Phenomena
Waiting For Harry
85 Years Since Houdini’s Death & Yet No Word From Harry From the Great Beyond During the early 20th century perhaps no person was more famous than Harry Houdini. The master magician and escape artist had a variety of careers … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Strange Phenomena
Tagged Entertainment, Houdini, Magic, New York Times, Psychics, Spiritualism
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Death By A Fly Bite
115 Years Ago, A Boy Mysteriously Dies and a Fly is to Blame In 1896 you could die at a moment’s notice. There were no antibiotics. Doctors and scientists were slowly discovering how diseases were spread. Then, as now, the … Continue reading
Ghost Video
Why Are Ghost Videos Always Poor Quality? If you are going to record paranormal activity you should remember three things: 1- Have good video equipment, preferably with a good lighting system. 2- Don’t run away if you encounter something strange. … Continue reading
What’ll You Have?
A Man Walks Into A Bar… This news photograph is captioned “Doberman tends bar, operates cash register.” June 10, 1947. Somehow I don’t think the animal rights groups would allow this today, let alone the department of health. Though I’ll … Continue reading
Unusual Talent
And Now For Something Completely Different… Who is this gentleman? The credit to this old news photo is “Archie Ferbus of Johnston City, Illinois can swallow his own nose.” June 1, 1935.
One of the Strangest Deaths in New York’s History
Girls Chase A Boy to Give Him Birthday Kisses and He Dies There is a book called Woodlawn Remembers: Cemetery of American History by Edward F. Bergman (North County Books, 1988.) The book is mostly comprised of beautiful full page … Continue reading
Late 19th / Early 20th century Photograph of a UFO in California
What is in the sky in this photograph? Is this one of the earliest UFO photographs? I saw this magic lantern slide photograph for sale on eBay about 5 years ago and thought it was interesting enough to copy on … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Strange Phenomena
Tagged Anomalies, California, eBay, Magic Lantern Slide, Turn-of-the-Century, UFO
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Two Babies Talking
Scientists talk about dolphins and whales having their own language. What about babies? It is a little long, but it is pretty funny.
Guess What? The World Is NOT Ending May 21
People Believing In Strange Things Maybe you’ve seen these people? The New York Times front page story on the people who believe in Harold Camping’s prophecy about the return of Jesus on May 21 and the end of the world … Continue reading →